You can capture amazing astrophotos with only a camera and a tripod — this beginner's guide will show you how.
Astronomers using the JWST have observed Sagittarius A* continuously flaring, reshaping our understanding of black holes.
Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Summer is the best time of year for seeing the Milky Way from the northern hemisphere—and parts of August are the very best.
"Beyond the Milky Way lie billions of other galaxies ... more likely to be the gas and dust that supplies the raw material for new stars and planets. New ways of finding distances to the nebulae ...
At double the width of our Milky Way galaxy, this jet of radio waves is the biggest ever detected so early in the history of the universe, astronomers reported Thursday. Radio jets like this are ...
This collage highlights a small selection of regions of the Milky Way imaged as part of the most ... [+] detailed infrared map ever of our galaxy. Here we see, from left to right and top to bottom ...
Our solar system resides in a galaxy called the Milky Way, stuffed with between 100 billion and 400 billion other stars, many of them with planets of their own. The Milky Way got its name from ...
The Milky Way keeps its planets close to its chest. Stars in a thin, flat disk bisecting the galaxy have more planets on average than stars in a thicker, enveloping disk — and astronomers now ...